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I know this is probably a lame post, but i’ll do it anyway.

If you want to search for HTML title, you’ll notice everyone gives out an answer like this:

$matches = array();
$pattern = ‘/<title>(.*)<\/title>/’;
preg_match($pattern, $html, $matches);

$pagetitle = $matches[1];

But this actually doesn’t work in cases where there’s extra newline character. (.*) Doesn’t match new lines, which probably causes the problem. This means that it matches

<title> title </title>

but doesn’t match

<title> title
</title>

Instead, do this:

preg_match(”/<title>([^<]*)<\/title>/i”, $html_text, $title);

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Yes, very friggin’ grim. Good for bottom feeding leeches like me, though.

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